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I Get System Perfomance Monitor Warning Message

Hallo
I got a little triangle on my windows tray telling me system perforance monitor warning my computer will slow down,and then i get my windows security telling me to down load stuff and pay to fix it i have got mcafee and avg and ad wear personal done all the scan nothing showing.I got windows xp home edition

Hi done what you said and used smitfraud and got them everything looks ok thank you.What i don't understand i downloaded something from the net to my desktop done a avg scan and that showed no threats but when i opened it i got all this stuff.Have i got enough security i got mcafee spyblaster addwear avg free and what comes with windows and aol.Now that i got smitfraud on
my desktop do i just keep it?

You can delete the smitfraudfix tool. Its frequently updated so your copy will be outdated in no time. Its not intended to be a general scanning tool anyway.

Now you should Set a New Restore Pointto prevent possible reinfection from an old one. Some of the malware you picked up could have been saved in System Restore. Since System Restore is a protected directory, your tools can not access it to delete these bad files which sometimes can reinfect your system. Setting a new restore point AFTER cleaning your system will help prevent this and enable your computer to "roll-back" to a clean working state.

Choose the radio button marked "Create a Restore Point" on the first screen then click "Next". Give the R.P. a name then click "Create". The new point will be stamped with the current date and time. Keep a log of this so you can find it easily should you need to use System Restore.

Then go to Start > Run and type: Cleanmgr

Click "OK".

Click the "More Options" Tab.

Click "Clean Up" in the System Restore section to remove all previous restore points except the newly created one.

Hi me again not sure if i got a problem?,done a AVG scan these 2 files keep coming up in the AVG box shell 32 dill c windows and ntoskrnl.exe c windows, but after the scan is finished it say no threat was found are this files safe. thanks

It is normal that AVG shows that files, the MBR or Boot record to have changed. These are done during normal maintainance, when you or windows updates files or have had to correct errors on the drive. The only time that you should worry is if they also show as infected.

To get AVG to quit showing them as changed, open the AVG Test Center, click the F3 key on your keyboard and tell it to accept the changes. If it still shows something as changed after this.. delete the file named AVG7QT.DAT in C:\ and AVG will rebuild it the next time it is run.

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There are many valid reasons for those files to show changed, a Windows update, file system check that replaced them if corrupted, and others. As long as AVG doesn't say they are infected it is ok. If it continues to show changed, delete the following file(s) in the C:\ directory and AVG will create a new one(s)...AVG7DB_F.DAT, AVG7QT.DAT

It is normal that AVG shows that files, the MBR or Boot record to have changed. These are done during normal maintainance, when you or windows updates files or have had to correct errors on the drive. The only time that you should worry is if they also show as infected.

To get AVG to quit showing them as changed, open the AVG Test Center, click the F3 key on your keyboard and tell it to accept the changes. If it still shows something as changed after this.. delete the file named AVG7QT.DAT in C:\ and AVG will rebuild it the next time it is run.